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Sleep: Moving Beyond Sleep Hygiene

Sleep:  Moving Beyond Sleep Hygiene

Sleep: Moving Beyond Sleep Hygiene

May 02, 2019 - 19:30 (EDT)
1 hour

This Webinar is now over. To access the full course click here. 

Introduction:

Scientists have discovered a revolutionary new treatment that makes you live longer. It enhances your memory, makes you more attractive. It keeps you slim and lowers food cravings. It protects you from cancer and dementia. It wards off colds and flu. It lowers your risk of heart attacks and stroke, not to mention diabetes. You’ll even feel happier, less depressed, and less anxious. Are you interested?

Sound like a new pharmaceutical?

Nope - it’s sleep.

We all understand at some level the importance of getting a good night’s sleep. Sleep is vital for all mammals for physical, cognitive, emotional and social well being.

But do you understand the effect of sleep on pain or on the state of the patient who walks through your door?

A lot of the symptoms of patients with persistent pain conditions experience can be directly related to their poor sleep.  In fact, research is now suggesting that poor sleep could be a driver to persistent pain as opposed to a consequence of it.

It’s important to note that helping people change their sleep can not only change their pain but also address many of the psychosocial factors in pain.

Interested in learning more?

Two emerging experts in the area of sleep hygiene and persistent pain are Carolyn Vandyken and Debbie Patterson - and on May 2nd they will be hosting a complimentary webinar for healthcare practitioners to give you the opportunity to learn more!

 

Here's What You Will Learn:

  • Increase interest and motivation to include treatment for sleep in physiotherapy practice.
  • How treatment for sleep should be part of physiotherapy practice.
  • How do physiotherapists incorporate treatment for sleep in their practice?
  • What are your approaches to sleep problems in your patient population?

 

The Details:

When: May 2nd at 7:30 pm EST.

Where: Click below to register.

Why: Sleep is important to all of our patients and we can significantly impact their recovery time by better understanding how we can help them.

Who: Debbie Patterson and Carolyn Vandyken (moderated by Maggie Bergeron).

What: Sleep: Moving Beyond Hygiene.

WARNING: Space is limited to the first 500 clinicians who register. 

These LIVE training always fill up fast so claim your spot right now to avoid disappointment. At Embodia's last webinar, we had over 550 people register and ran out of space.

NB. This course will be recorded and will be made available for free to Embodia Members.

 

Becoming An Embodia Member Means You Get The Following Benefits:

  • 20% off your first premium level course. A $30-$100 savings right off the bat!
  • Full access to an extensive free library (20+) of ‘member only’ courses with new ones added each month!
  • Full subscription to the Embodia home exercise prescription software and exercise library (a $15/month value on its own).
  • Invitation to our monthly ‘members-only’ webinars hosted by an Embodia instructor.
  • Monthly ‘member only’ discount days (20-40% off) on premium level courses.
  • Includes a 30 min, 1:1 professional development consultation. A $150 value!
  • Members have the option to apply to be an Embodia Instructor (avg instructors- makes $500 per month).
This plan is ideal for practitioners who work full time and take 2 or more courses per year and are serious about patient outcomes. 
 
The Embodia membership is $15/month and you get 10% off if you subscribe to the annual plan. Members of the Canadian Physiotherapy Association get 25% off the membership.
 
If you don't subscribe to become an Embodia member, you will be on the Pay-As-You-Go Plan which means you pay for individual courses, don't get discounts and have a restricted library of free courses.

If you're ready to subscribe and become an Embodia Member, click here. Once you sign in you will be redirected to the correct page where you can subscribe.

 

About The Panelists:

Carolyn Vandyken

Carolyn is a Pelvic Health Physiotherapist, has co-authored the first book on patient-centred pain biology education for pelvic pain, Why Pelvic Pain Hurts, and also co-authored three peer-reviewed framework articles with Sandra Hilton on the assessment and treatment of persistent pelvic pain.

She co-owns a Canadian-based teaching company, Pelvic Health Solutions, and teaches internationally on the physiotherapy for pelvic floor problems. She also manages her own practice in Huntsville, Ontario.

Debbie Patterson

Debbie Patterson is an orthopaedic physiotherapist with a special interest in the treatment of persistent pain. Early in her career, she recognized that the medical model of physiotherapy treatment often failed people with persistent pain. This led her on a career path of learning about the current science of pain and searching for clinical relevance in the treatment of pain.

For over 25 years her clinical practise has focused on providing evidence-based treatment for persistent pain conditions, including chronic low back and neck pain, complex regional pain syndrome, phantom limb pain and fibromyalgia. She has treated pre-teenage children with chronic pain conditions, teenagers, and adults.

She was a founding member of the Canadian Physiotherapy Pain Science Group and later was a founding member of the Pain Science Division of the Canadian Physiotherapy Association, serving on the executive as Secretary for two years. Debbie is committed to postgraduate education of health care providers.

 

Not interested in Sleep? Debbie and Carolyn are hosting a second webinar on May 2nd at 6:15 pm EST about mentorship. Click here to learn more. http://bit.ly/2UTrcGb

The instructors
Debbie Patterson
Registered Physiotherapist

Debbie Patterson is an orthopaedic physiotherapist with a special interest in the treatment of persistent pain. Early in her career she recognized that the medical model of physiotherapy treatment often failed people with persistent pain. This led her on a career path of learning about the current science of pain, and searching for clinical relevance in the treatment of pain.

Debbie Patterson is a registered physiotherapist in the provinces of Ontario and Alberta. She is a founding member of the Pain Science Division of the Canadian Physiotherapy Association.

Debbie has a clinical practice treating people whose lives are affected by persistent and complex pain conditions. She has worked within the Biopsychosocial model of pain for over 35 years. She sees herself as a physiotherapy coach to help patients relieve suffering, pain and distress and improve their quality of life.

Debbie has used Telerehab to assess and treat patients for over 10 years. She is a trained and certified Progressive Goal Attainment Programme (PGAP) clinician and is trained in Cognitive Behavioural Therapy and Motivational Interviewing. Debbie has a passion for teaching patients and health care providers about the science of pain in the Biopsychosocial model. She has taught courses in pain science and appropriate assessment and treatment approaches. Now she provides live and recorded webinars. She also mentors other physiotherapists in developing their knowledge and skills to better meet the needs of their patients with persistent pain.


Carolyn Vandyken
BHSc (PT)

Carolyn is the co-owner of Reframe Rehab, a teaching company engaged in breaking down the barriers internationally between pelvic health, orthopaedics and pain science. Carolyn has practiced in orthopaedics and pelvic health for the past 37 years. She is a McKenzie Credentialled physiotherapist (1999), certified in acupuncture (2002), and obtained a certificate in Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) in 2017.

Carolyn received the YWCA Women of Distinction award (2004) and the distinguished Education Award from the OPA (2015). Carolyn was recently awarded the Medal of Distinction from the Canadian Physiotherapy Association in 2021 for her work in pelvic health and pain science.

Carolyn has been heavily involved in post-graduate pelvic health education, research in lumbopelvic pain, speaking at numerous international conferences and writing books and chapters for the past twenty years in pelvic health, orthopaedics and pain science.

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